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During the Northeast Algal Society’s annual spring meeting, NEAS offers a venue for professionals and undergraduate and graduate students alike to present their original research through poster or oral paper. From its beginnings in the society has provided strong support to its student members and participants. The Robert T. Wilce Graduate Paper Award recognizes the graduate student who presents the best paper among his or her peers. The name of the award honors Robert T. Wilce, one of the founding members of NEAS, by NEAS for his dedication to the field of phycology in general and to NEAS in particular through research education and mentoring of students. Through his unremitting enthusiasm, a continuing commitment to algal research, (at 85 he is still professionally active and works in his lab most days), Robert Wilce has inspired many students to become phycologist. His own focus of research began with his PhD field studies of Labrador seaweeds as he collected from a small boat along the rugged Labrador coast. Later he studied and collected, first by dredging and later by diving in arctic environments from the north coast of Alaska to the northern arctic Canadian archipelago and Greenland, Europe and eastern North America. Always curious, enthusiastic and with a question for student presenters, it is fitting that the award for best graduate paper bear his name. |
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Robert T. Wilce Oral Paper Awardees 1990 Janet Kuebler, U Maine Robert T. Wilce Poster Awardees 1990 Josh Philibert, U Massachusetts |